Brake Disc Pads problems of the 2014 Honda Odyssey

While braking at 50+mph, the steering wheel starts to shake violently. The car currently has 58,000 miles on it. This has been occurring for over a year. We have had the tires rotated and balanced, the rotors and break pads are good. This is becoming a safety hazard and Honda needs to do something about this.

At 26608 miles front rotors had to be resurfaced. Honda dealer did this at �no charge for first time only. � rotors vibrated again at 50000 miles and were replaced independently with non Honda parts. Now again at 70000 miles the vibration when braking is worse than ever before. Brake pads were replaced as well with no improvement. With so many owners having this issue Honda needs to address it.

Car has 53,000 miles on and while driving in speeds above 30 mph the steering wheel violently shakes and is worsens with increased speeds. This shakes my entire body, steering column and makes it difficult to control the wheel. I had already replaced both front and back pads and had rotors turned around 23k. All work done at Honda dealership.

Like so many other Odysseys, the brakes vibrate and shake the steering wheel under heavy braking such as stopping at the bottom of a hill. Honda has come up with new part #, but they say not covered on our vehicle. Should not have to replace rotors & pads at 22000 miles.

24,000 miles on our car and it is only 2 years old and we were told our front rotors were warped and needed to be machined. I had call the service dept. When we were under 20,000miles and was told the sqeaky noise was from the rain and the water getting onto the brake pads. . . Ya ok. $120 + labor + taxes later and I was told it was due to my driving style. . Which I do not "ride the brakes" nor do I "break hard" . We have never had an issue like this with any other car. My husbands chevy malibu has over 100,000 miles on it and this is the second time we have had to have his brakes done. I am very frustrated with this and I think it should be under warranty or some sort of recall on the rotors.

At 29,000 miles, March of 2015, rotors had to be re-surfaced. At that time mechanic stated they where having a lot of problems with Odyssey rotors as the rotor was too small for the weight of the Odyssey. Mechanic and serive writer stated that all it took to wrapp rotors was one semi-hard stop. Dealer re-surface rotor under warranty, but would not replace brake pads that had a groove in them from wrapped rotor. Now at 44,000 miles, Nov. 3, 2015, rotors are wrapped again and need to be replaced. Dealer refuses to do anything about this problem. I believe this is a safety problem Honda should take care of by replacing rotors with a heavy duty rotor and new brake pads.

At 10k miles, we had vibration and sporadic humming noise from brakes. I took the vehicle to Honda last year with about 12. 5k miles on vehicle. They were unable to hear the noise but they wanted to turn the rotors to address the issue and said it went out of warranty at 12k miles. We were shocked as we have had numerous vehicles and never had to service brakes this early. After speaking with the manager they agreed to fix it under warranty and said because of driving habits sometimes brakes just need to be replaced sooner. The noise continued, we took it back around 24k miles. They couldn't hear the noise but shaved rear rotors to see if it helped. Now we have 35k miles and back at the service department for vibration and noise. This time I took a clip of the noise so they could hear it. The solution was new pads and turn the rotors on all axels and it would be about $400 since it’s not under warranty. They said brakes were in mechanically good condition and the pads still had about 40% so I could just live with noise and vibration if I didn’t want to do the brake job. I said I thought this was ridiculous based on its mileage and was again told basically it’s dependent on driving habits (although I have never had this problem on any other car I’ve owned). I said I think it’s a Honda brake design issue in that rotors and pads are not robust enough for the size of the vehicle as there are other complaints on NHTSA and online with the same issues. We talked to the service manager who agreed they have seen this as a problem and admitted he has a pilot that needs brakes about every 40k miles. They agreed to turn the back rotors to see if that fixes the noise and offered a discount to do the front brakes. He let us know we could use after market pads that may be better but aren’t under the Honda warranty (we didn’t do this and used same pads with less than appealing 12k mile warranty).

The car has been shaking (steering wheel specifically) when braking. This has been going on for about 5000 miles but I didn't realize it was an issue. Upon review it was found front brake pads are 80% and back are 50% but front rotors are warped. Dealer is not covering as 'under warranty' saying that warped rotors are driver wear. Everything I'm reading online says that this is happening to a lot of 2011-2014 Odysseys and that there are mixed results on dealers covering under warranty. I do not drive aggressively and do not drive mountains/hills. I've had 5 Honda's including one other Odyssey we drove for 9 years and never had this problem. I'm also reading it has been shown to happen repeatedly at low mileage rates. I will add another claim if this happens again.

Experienced extreme shaking while braking at high speeds. Brought the car into the dealership and they said my rotors are warped. I asked them why my rotors were warped at 6k miles and they didn't really say anything. The problem came back another time six months later and again they turned the rotors. It just happened again and they said my rotors are too thin to turn and they need to be replaced at 20k miles. I complained to the service manager and he said they have seen three other cars already of this year/make with rotor needing to be replaced at low mileage. They said this is more normal for a 60k mile plus type maintenance. Honda has agreed to replace the rotors and pads for the cost of the parts (free labor). However I thought I should report it as it seems to be a defect affecting more than just my car.